Authors starting with R from Charles Agvent, ABAA

New York: Promontory, 1974. Reprint. F/NF. Map. ... more information

(Mansfield): M. Martino, [1998]. Reprint. As new. xxiv, 491 pages. A bibliography of the famous publishing firm which issued over 1600 titles between 1585 and 1712. Rahir lists 3464 titles making it a fine companion to Willems. An excellent index is included as well as valuable notes about the various editions. ... more information

(Staten Island): M. Martino, [1997]. Reprint. Fine. Octavo, xvi, 268 pages. Limited to only 150 copies, this first bibliography of Texas is a descriptive list of books, pamphlets, and documents in print and manuscript since 1536 and up to the 1890s. Streeter's more famous bibliography covers only the period from 1795-1845. The original edition of Raines was only 500 copies. ... more information

(London): (G. Lathum & R. Young), (1634). Fourth Edition. leather. The text is generally clean with good margins. One leaf--Kk3--with clean tear with no loss. Overall a very attractive copy in Near Fine condition. Folio (8-1/2" x 12-3/4") bound in recent paneled two-tone calf with a gilt-lettered morocco spine label; [60], 184, 181-555, [1], 512, 517-669, [1], [54] pages. This copy with the poem "The Mind of the Front" bound as the first page of text and without the engraved title page with a date. It doe... more information

New York: Random House, (1961). First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with minor wear to the spine tips and soiling on the rear panel. Her first book of nonfiction, SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. ... more information

New York: New American Library, (1966). First Edition. cloth. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with some sunning. Copy #314 of 700 SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. ... more information

New York: Random House, (1957). First Edition. Cloth. Tiny tear to heel of book's spine and insignificant wear to spine tips. About Fine in bright, just about Fine dustwrapper. Very nice copy. ... more information

New York: Random House, (1957) [1967]. cloth. Some mostly mild staining and fading of covers; slight paper split before title page. Very Good in a Near Fine slipcase. Stated Ninth Printing but more importantly Copy #68 of 2000 SIGNED by the author on the limitation page of the Tenth Anniversary Edition of her most influential book. ... more information

Cambridge: Pomegranate Press, 1973. First Edition. Broadside. Fine. K. Klopp. 12-1/2x19-1/4". One of only 65 numbered copies SIGNED by Klopp. ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First Edition. hardcover. Good only and lacks rare dustwrapper but inscribed. Owner name of Linda Rhea dated 1924 on front free endpaper, and below that INSCRIBED by the author "Inscribing myself cordially, but regretfully/because 'our numbers are not felicitous,'" and SIGNED in full on 4 March 1925. Corners worn. ... more information

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1919. First Edition. boards. Fine in a Very Good or better dustwrapper. Original brown paper boards with paper label on the front board and spine, in the very scarce printed dustwrapper. Ransom's first book consisting of poems written while he was a cadet and later an officer in in World War I. The dustwrapper is complete but for slight loss along each flap fold and a vertical 2-1/2" chip along the spine edge and rear panel that is no wider than 1/4". Copies in any decent... more information

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hardcover. Touch of rubbing to the spine tips; otherwise, a tight, fresh copy. About Fine in a similar slipcase. Fritz Kredel. Octavo (6-1/2" x 9-5/8") bound in half polished black calfskin, gold-stamped, with French marbled paper sides. A definitive text edited, and with an introduction, by John Carswell. Illustrated with pen and water-color drawings by Fritz Kredel, hand-colored by Walter Fischer. Copy #834 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. ... more information

New York: Augustin, (1945). First Edition. Gutters darkened. VG in chipped, G dw.. Quarto. Photos by Rathenau. Text selected from writings of Buck, Covarrubias, Kipling, a.o. ... more information

London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1935. First Edition. leather/boards. Brief rubbing to spine tips. About Fine. Original half dark blue morocco and marbled paper boards. Illustrated with one full-page wood engraving, one half-page wood engraving, and 15 wood-engraved vignettes by Eric Ravillious. Copy #158 of 212 printed on Arnold's handmade paper and signed by the author. ... more information

Beaconsfield, 1943 & 1946. Fine. Interesting letters, one SIGNED in full and the other SIGNED with initials, both to the Russian author and critic Stefan Schimanski, co-editor of KINGDOM COME, the first poetry journal to appear in Britain after the start of World War II and the principle organ of the literary and artistic movement known as "apocalypticism," an outgrowth of surrealism and the anarchist philosophy of Read. In part: "Eric Newton's review represents a very general reaction to my book & is on ... more information

Columbus, OH: J. & H. Miller, 1859. Decorated cloth. Very Good. 3 steel & many wood engrs. Octavo, 385 pages. ... more information

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Decorated cloth. Mild sunning to the spines. Fine in Very Good dustwrappers and a lightly soiled, Very Good slipcase. Lynd Ward. Two octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/4") volumes bound in full brown duck cloth printed in brown and orange from a design by Lynd Ward. Introduction by Hendrik Willem van Loon. Wash drawings by Lynd Ward reproduced in photogravure. Copy #710 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. In the uncommon dustwrappers, one of which is chipped along t... more information

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Decorated cloth. Fine in a Fair slipcase, splitting on the bottom and soiled, as usual. Lynd Ward. Two octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/4") volumes bound in full brown duck cloth printed in brown and orange from a design by Lynd Ward. Introduction by Hendrik Willem van Loon. Wash drawings by Lynd Ward reproduced in photogravure. Copy #308 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Small university bookplates on the front pastedown of each volume. ... more information

Washington, [1988]. Manuscript. Fine. Copy of a White House Office of Public Affairs release consisting of two (8-1/2" x 11") loose sheets with a depiction of the White House at the top left front. SIGNED by Reagan at the top right of the first page underneath the title "The President's Column": "To Barry--/With Best Wishes./Ronald Reagan." Reagan discusses the meaning of the season and helping needy children at Christmas time on the first page and the tragedy of the Armenian earthquake on the second. Int... more information

London: Hutchinson, (1990). First Edition. hardcover. Mild bumping to corners. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. First English Edition. Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED "With Best Wishes" and dated 3 June 1994 by the late president on the half title page. Reagan is quite uncommon in authentically autographed books (the great majority of "signed" Reagan books offered on are forgeries) and is usually found with a signed bookplate attached. This is the first time we have had a British edition of one of ... more information